Disasters abound across the globe. It's Friday, and that simple sentence is a viral hit on YouTube by some girl named after a Biblical character and the absence of light. My mother-in-law, whom I greatly respect and love, is now the proud owner of an iPad 2, yet she doesn't know how to use her cell phone. My son said it, quoting R.E.M., "It's the end of the world as we know it; and I feel fine."
OK, it's easy to think that the end is near. Must have felt that way in the Middle Ages, in the midst of the Black Death, with citywide conflagrations in several places in Western Europe, or when the Conquistadors arrived in Central America. For all our accomplishments, we have managed to hasten the pace of destruction; be it conflict or contagion, disaster or dereliction of duty to man, vice or virus; we cannot defeat death. In fact, we seem to be hastening to embrace it's cold hands.
2012, a popular myth if the end of time, or is it prophetic. Or, is mankind simply working to fulfill a prophecy...
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